Business: Damnation of Mitchell

"Mitchell is the ideal modern
bank executive."Carlton A. Shively, Financial Editor of the New York
Sun, May 1929.* "Mitchell more than any 50 men is responsible for
this stock crash."U. S. Senator Carter Glass, November 1929.

Last week, Charles Edwin Mitchell (hair whiter but neck, biceps and
calves as toughly muscular as ever) was brought to trial. He could not
see his judgesthey were that inchoate multitude, the U. S. people.
Verdict (uttered in a vast mumble of expletives as evening headlines
followed morning): that Charles Edwin Mitchell, as chairman of the...